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American Social History Project • Center for Media and Learning

Dominican Immigration to the United States

Published April 13, 2015

Ramona Hernandez, Dominican Studies Institute, City College
CUNY Graduate Center, February 7, 2014

In this lecture, Professor Ramona Hernández closely examines both the statistics and the demographics of the increasing Dominican presence in the United States. Why is there a geographic shift in the locations that Dominicans are settling? How do Dominicans compare to other Latino groups in terms of assimilation into American society? Hernández overturns stereotypical perceptions that surround Dominican populations and contests the idea of applying a singular paradigm to all Latino immigrants, using the Dominican situation to illustrate the complexities that are left unexplained as a result of such classifications.

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